I used to love LG electronics.
I learned a valuable lesson with their HVAC units: Just because a company knows how to make smartphones does not necessarily mean that they know how to make heavy duty appliances.
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Somebody who thinks like me. Our dishwasher died a few years ago so me, the wife, and the daughter go to Sears to do some dishwasher shopping. Holy crap! The wife immediately gravitated towards the $1000+ models. Really? To wash dishes? It's an appliance, it doesn't need to be a work of art! While pondering dishwashers she moved on over to the refrigerator section and started saying how dated our side by side fridge/freezer with ice/water in the door was now even though it had been declared great a few years earlier. Maybe we should get a whole new set of matching appliances. 
What's a man to do?
I bet we looked for 2 months before we figured out what was causing the beep!! 
I shall have to delve into the book... if I got one!
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I clicked on this thread because one of these days I need a dishwasher for the condo. I'm afraid to turn the one that's there on because I'm pretty sure it hasn't been used in at least 15 years. Wouldn't want to flood the people below me.
My main concern is that it fits in the hole and someone will come to install it and cart the other one away.
I've been reading reviews... so far it's not helping. The typical pattern is about 1,000 5-star reviews that say THIS DISHWASHER IS AMAZING IT CHANGED MY LIFE WOW BEST THING EVER
then about 100 1 star reviews that say it's a big piece of junk that doesn't get anything clean, or dry(almost all of them say they don't dry) and that it breaks often.
I've never had or even seen a Bosh appliance at anyone's house that I can remember but I know they're a good name in the auto parts world... hmm.. will have to take a look.
It's ok, I have a loud stereo hooked up to the TV.
But really noise doesn't bother us a lot. My wife and I are both the sort of people who need to turn a fan on to sleep. Sometimes I can hear our dishwasher in the kitchen while I'm going to sleep, it doesn't bother me.... pretty much any consistent sound like a motor or humming I can sleep through. Stuff like people talking, stuff banging around, the dog chewing on something, etc that isn't a constant noise will keep me up all night even if barely audible though. Go figure.
I also consider them friends so I'm not going to take the chance. Funny, I feel closer (and not just physically) to some people in the condo than I do to my neighbors in the other house where I have lived for 25 years.
We have a garbage disposal, it goes to the holding tank on the boat, unless we are off shore, then it discharges overboard.
So. My dishwasher died. I took it apart and the main board that runs the thing had multiple fried traces and some blown capacitors. Looked all over the internet and there hasn't been a board available for it in about 5 years and 5 years ago they wanted $350 which is insane.
Over the period of about a month I messed around with repairing the board..but ultimately failed mostly because there were so many cooked traces and my attempts at repairing it just caused more damage since I couldn't really figure out the circuit design with the layers. Definitely let the smoke out of a handful of components during this period.
Finally accepted the reality that repairing my existing one wasn't going to happen...Plus the "pressure" from the girlfriend to resolve the dishwasher situation was increasing exponentially with each day. I looked around the internet and yeah it's incredibly frustrating. There is no such thing as a "neutral" review site and really all the reviews work out about the same with whatever their brand loyalty is.
If you try to read user reviews it doesn't matter which dishwasher it is it's a total pile of junk that's going to make a swimming pool in your kitchen.
I came to the conclusion that paying significantly more for a dishwasher wasn't really worth it. You're basically paying for prettier parts..not a higher quality machine..until you get to the thousands of dollars.
I knew one thing for sure. I *did not* want to go to a physical store and listen to a bunch of crap from some "kid" that had no clue and would waste a hour of my time pushing some extended warranty.
I *almost* ordered one via Amazon Prime to avoid that but their selection was rather limited. Finally looked at the various retailers that would show me if one was locally in stock and could be purchased online and picked up immediately thereafter.
That is something Sears does well, order online, drive up to loading dock, and in less than 5 minutes (guaranteed) they'll load the product in your truck.
Couldn't figure out any brand that didn't appear to make junk, so ended up buying this one for $449 which seemed like a pretty good deal:
http://www.sears.com/whirlpool-dish...p-02218443000P?prdNo=6&blockNo=6&blockType=G6
Took me about a hour to install it. It's running right now. So far there isn't a swimming pool in my kitchen.
We'll see how long it lasts before it explodes.
Data point: Two more LG units crapped out last night. One is too loud, one stopped cooling. 30 and 32 months old, respectively.
I have one spare Frigidaire unit in stock. I either use the loud room (and tick off the guest) or cancel their reservation on a sold-out Easter weekend (and tick off the guest).
LG sucks hind teat.
(Worse, I just got a message from the former head of IT at Frigidaire, the company we are now using, telling me the sad tale of how that once - grand American manufacturer has been gutted, and now outsources production of their HVAC units to....LG. Argh.)
